Pekin Community High School

Set in Pekin, Illinois, Pekin Community High School is a sprawling 9-12 campus, overseen by Pekin CSD 303. It caters to 1,712 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Pekin Community High School sits 105% bigger than that benchmark.

Pekin CSD 303 is the operating authority for Pekin Community High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Pekin Community High School lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Pekin Community High School logs 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Pekin Community High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.8%; this one comes in at 31.0%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Tazewell County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,982 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Tazewell County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,581 students), Pekin Community High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Broadmoor Junior High School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pekin Community High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.9%.

Pekin Community High School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Pekin Community High School's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,824 (now 1,712). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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